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Creating Rawrite disk images

    On a Linux machine:
  1. Insert the disk to be 'imaged' into drive A: (fd0)
  2. Enter
    dd if=/dev/fd0 of=<filename>
    where <filename> is the name of the image file
  3. If you plan to use rawrite on a DOS machine, FTP the file to a DOS machine now
  4. GZip the files using
    gzip -9 <filename>
    where <filename> is the name of the image file. This will create a file called <filename>.gz

    5. To create a new disk from the image:
  5. Insert a blank disk in drive A: (fd0)
  6. Enter
    gunzip -c <gzipfilename>|dd of=/dev/fd0
    where <gzipfilename> is the name of the gzipped file

    7. On a DOS machine (rawrite will not run in an NT DOS window):

  7. FTP the image file from the Linux machine

    8. To create a new disk from the image:
  8. Insert a blank disk in drive A:
  9. Enter
    rawrite <filename> a:
    where <filename> is the name of the image file
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